Sentence examples for basis of subsistence from inspiring English sources

The annual flood cycle in the Okavango Delta is the basis of subsistence of the local population, providing water, arable land and wetland resources.

Gerhard Lenski in Power and Privilege (1966) classified societies on the basis of their main tools of subsistence and, unlike Marx, demonstrated statistically that variations in the primary tools used in a given society systematically accounted for different types of social stratification systems.

The whales migrate through the Beaufort Sea twice a year and are the basis of the Inupiat community's subsistence culture.

25, 27, 28, 47, 50 Dengue is among the infectious diseases that can cause unexpected catastrophic medical costs for families living in low-income countries (a catastrophic cost has been defined as ≥ 40% of the capacity to pay, on the basis of a household's non-subsistence effective income.

Just a matter of subsistence?

"Expand the means of subsistence," he said.

That is the nature of subsistence.

Islands of capitalism existed amid a sea of subsistence labour.

Invasion threatens to overlap the narrow margin of subsistence.

Kitwarotith, the son of subsistence farmers, is typical.

For him food is merely an indispensable means of subsistence.